Discussion Papers 2008. Socio-Economic Analysis of the Carpathian Area 45-60. p. 5 Carpathian settlement structure Carpathian development region (CDR) with its borders roughly defined covers parts of 8 countries. Moreover it covers not only the mountain range of Carpathi- ans but also foothills of the mountains and areas neighbouring the mountains as well as some areas which apparently have little to do with Carpathians in a geo- graphic sense. Their inclusion into the project area is rather the result of adminis- trative division, social and economic links than of physical features of the area. Analyzing the settlement structure covering the CDR, authors have concen- trated on the substantive area covered by Carpathian Mountains with respect to administrative units (mostly NUTS3 level). The first step was to divide popula- tion living in these units into urban and rural. On this level it is necessary to say that in some countries there are not only cities, towns and villages as the main types of settlements, but there are also other urban settlements like e.g. town type villages in Ukraine (treated in the analysis as urban settlements) or Marktge- mainde in Austria (treated in the analysis as rural settlements). The urban settlements have been divided into four ranges: above 500,000 inhabitants, 100,000 – 499,999 inhabitants, 20,000 – 99,999 inhabitants, below 20,000 inhabitants. Moreover the urbanization index and population density have been calculated. The results are included in the final table “General Characteristic of Carpathian Settlements’’. Because of the fact that there has been lack of data concerning the number of villages for some regions, settlement density had not been included in the table. Some information about settlement density and spatial distribution are included in the text and in Table 13. This study covers the characteristics of settlement structure in each country within the project area and its final part contains conclusions concerning the whole project area. 5.1 Austria Generously drafted the Carpathian development region encompasses 3 NUTS2 units of Austria namely Niederösterreich, Burgenland and the capital city of Vienna. Population of such territory amounts to 3,473,000 inhabitants. Leaving aside the very city of Vienna population density in Niederösterreich is 80 inh./km2 and in Burgenland 70 inh./km2. So the settlement network of this part of Austria consists of the metropolis of Vienna (1,651,365 inh.) and of several towns Carpathian Settlement Structure. In: Socio-Economic Analysis of the Carpathian Area. Pécs: Centre for Regional Studies, 2008. 45-60. p. Discussion Papers, Special 46 SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE CARPATHIAN AREA Table 13 General characteristic of Carpathian settlements Administrative unit Urban settlements Urban Rural Total Urbaniza- Area Population population population population tion index (km2) density above 100,000 – 20,000 – below 2 500,000 499,999 99,999 20,000 (%) (inh./km ) inhab. inhab. inhab. inhab. AUSTRIA Bezirk Bruck an der 0 0 0 3 16,693 23,313 40,006 41.7 495.0 81 Leitha Czech Republic Jihomoravský kraj 0 1 5 16 621,641 508,717 1,130,358 55.0 7,196.0 157 Zlínský kraj 0 0 5 15 325,649 265,057 590,706 55.1 3,963.0 149 Olomoucký kraj 0 1 3 9 329,455 309,706 639,161 51.5 5,267.0 121 Moravskoslezský kraj 0 1 11 21 939,941 310,828 1,250,769 75.1 5,427.0 230 HUNGARY Békés 0 0 4 12 267,303 131,999 399,302 66.9 5,631.1 71 Borsod-Abaúj- 0 1 2 14 398,284 352,538 750,822 53.1 7,247.2 104 Zemplén Csongrád 0 1 3 4 299,666 118,908 418,574 71.6 4,262.7 98 Győr-Moson-Sopron 0 1 2 4 236,154 192,388 428,542 55.1 4,088.7 105 Hajdú-Bihar 0 1 2 14 402,242 142,340 544,582 73.9 6,210.6 88 Heves 0 0 3 4 139,803 185,329 325,132 43.0 3,637.4 89 Jász-Nagykum- 0 0 4 12 273,991 143,017 417,008 65.7 5,581.7 75 Szolnok Komárom-Esztergom 0 0 4 4 191,400 122,958 314,358 60.9 2,265.1 139 Nógrád 0 0 1 5 98,248 123,394 221,642 44.3 2,544.2 87 Carpathian Settlement Structure. In: Socio-Economic Analysis of the Carpathian Area. Pécs: Centre for Regional Studies, 2008. 45-60. p. Discussion Papers, Special CARPATHIAN SETTLEMENT STRUCTURE 47 Count. Table 13 Administrative unit Urban settlements Urban Rural Total Urbaniza- Area Population population population population tion index (km2) density above 100,000 – 20,000 – below 2 500,000 499,999 99,999 20,000 (%) (inh./km ) inhab. inhab. inhab. inhb. Pest 0 0 11 16 496,891 570,690 1,067,581 46.5 6,393.5 167 City of Budapest 1 0 0 0 1,712,677 0 1,712,677 100.0 525.2 3,261 Szabolcs-Szatmár- 0 1 0 18 271,672 314,486 586,158 46.4 5,936.5 99 Bereg POLAND Krakowsko-Tarnowski 0 1 5 25 528,098 873,475 1,401,573 37.7 7,385.0 190 Nowosądecki 0 0 5 18 362,103 750,618 1,112,721 32.5 7,478.0 149 City of Kraków 1 0 0 0 733,439 0 733,439 100.0 327.0 2,243 Rzeszowsko- 0 1 4 18 534,284 624,715 1,158,999 46.1 7,512.0 154 Tarnobrzeski Krośnieńsko- 0 0 5 17 339,939 608,848 948,787 35.8 10,332.0 92 Przemyski Częstochowski 0 1 1 6 332,986 203,748 536,734 62.0 3,047.0 176 Bielsko-Bialski 0 1 3 6 340,732 304,595 645,327 52.8 2,352.0 274 Centralny Śląski 0 9 16 17 2,678,780 188,308 2,867,088 93.4 5,578.0 514 Świętokrzyski 0 1 5 24 614,477 680,988 1,295,465 47.4 11,708.0 111 Rybnicko-Jastrzębski 0 2 5 4 528,349 114,951 643,300 82.1 1,354.0 475 ROMANIA Alba 0 0 5 6 224,036 161,478 385,514 58.1 6,242.0 62 Arad 0 1 0 7 233,341 228,403 461,744 50.5 7,754.0 60 Arges 0 1 3 3 315,198 335,304 650,502 48.5 6,826.0 95 Carpathian Settlement Structure. In: Socio-Economic Analysis of the Carpathian Area. Pécs: Centre for Regional Studies, 2008. 45-60. p. Discussion Papers, Special 48 SOCIO-ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF THE CARPATHIAN AREA Count. Table 13 Administrative unit Urban settlements Urban Rural Total Urbaniza- Area Population population population population tion index (km2) density above 100,000 – 20,000 – below 2 500,000 499,999 99,999 20,000 (%) (inh./km ) inhab. inhab. inhab. inhab. Bacău 0 1 4 3 339,377 385,628 725,005 46.8 6,621.0 110 Bistriţa-Năsăud 0 0 1 3 115,686 203,404 319,090 36.3 5,355.0 60 Brasov 0 1 4 5 448,470 147,307 595,777 75.3 5,363.0 111 Buzău 0 1 1 3 206,846 291,239 498,085 41.5 6,103.0 82 Caraş-Severin 0 0 2 6 188,800 145,060 333,860 56.6 8,520.0 39 Cluj-Napoka 0 1 4 1 435,722 230,661 684,383 66.3 6,674.0 103 Covasna 0 0 2 3 114,368 110,554 224,922 50.8 3,710.0 61 Dambovita 0 0 2 5 169,158 370,164 539,322 31.4 4,054.0 133 Gorj 0 0 2 5 163,905 222,985 386,890 42.4 5,602.0 69 Harghita 0 0 3 6 145,693 183,651 329,344 44.2 6,639.0 50 Hunedoara 0 0 7 7 377,365 112,507 489,872 77.0 7,063.0 69 Ilfov 0 0 2 2 73,423 203,441 276,864 26.5 1,583.0 175 City of Bucureşti 1 0 0 0 1,929,615 0 1,929,615 100.0 238.0 8,178 Maramureş 0 1 2 10 305,389 213,668 519,057 58.8 6,304.0 82 Mehedinţi 0 1 0 4 148,422 158,866 307,288 48.3 4,933.0 62 Mureş 0 1 3 7 313,827 272,163 585,990 53.6 6,714.0 87 Neamţ 0 1 2 2 223,144 349,111 572,255 39.0 5,896.0 97 Prahova 0 1 1 12 425,381 407,177 832,558 51.1 4,716.0 177 Satu Mare 0 1 1 3 173,012 199,921 372,933 46.4 4,418.0 85 Sălaj 0 0 1 3 101,784 147,410 249,194 40.8 3,864.0 64 Suceava 0 1 3 11 293,792 411,755 705,547 41.6 8,553.0 82 Timiş 0 1 1 7 414,273 246,898 661,171 62.7 8,697.0 76 Carpathian Settlement Structure. In: Socio-Economic Analysis of the Carpathian Area. Pécs: Centre for Regional Studies, 2008. 45-60. p. Discussion Papers, Special CARPATHIAN SETTLEMENT STRUCTURE 49 Count. Table 13 Administrative unit Urban settlements Urban Rural Total Urbaniza- Area Population population population population tion index (km2) density above 100,000 – 20,000 – below 2 500,000 499,999 99,999 20,000 (%) (inh./km ) inhab.